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Reporting from Washington and beyond, across politics, immigration, the courts, and health policy. Every headline links to the published piece.
Public health officials said some parents are confused about what vaccines are required to attend Texas schools amid efforts to change recommendations.
With Terri Langford
The Protect College Sports Act gained a burst of momentum with last week’s support from the SEC and Big Ten, but the clock is ticking as the Senate prepares to leave town.
Granger was the first GOP woman from Texas to be elected to Congress, where she served for nearly three decades.
With Alex Nguyen
Despite sending more Republicans to Congress than any other state, Texas has elected only five GOP women to the U.S. House in its history. Redistricting and retirements could change things.
Mealer, the GOP nominee in Texas’ 9th Congressional District, would represent Houston’s Magnolia Park, where an ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, under the GOP’s new redistricting map.
With support from Democrats Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, the House also passed a bill Wednesday that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks and implement new voter ID requirements.
With Gabby Birenbaum
The Republican senator from Texas had threatened to withhold his vote on Trump’s ambassador nominees unless the White House unlocked the freeze on a fund meant for HIV/AIDS prevention.
The LinkedIn co-founder’s donation was nearly 80% of the pro-Talarico super PAC’s second-quarter haul. It comes as the Austin Democrat wages a campaign focused on keeping big money out of politics.
Almost none of the state’s major Republican officials have weighed in on the killing of a Houston man by federal agents, and U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said she had not spoken with Gov. Greg Abbott.
With Alejandro Serrano and Gabby Birenbaum
Just 2% of Texas voters call abortion the state’s most pressing problem. Advocates are reframing the issue as one of reproductive healthcare that affects families’ pocketbooks.
The outgoing senator said requiring voters to register with a party — and limiting GOP primary access to registered Republicans — would be “paving the way to minority party status.”
An interactive presentation of The Daily Northwestern's Fall 2025 poll of Northwestern undergraduates.
How a grassroots Arab American group grew from a basement operation into an advocacy voice reaching the White House.
The bill raises penalties on fentanyl-related substances but leaves addiction treatment untouched — which experts say is why it will fall short.
The mayors of Chicago, New York, Boston and Denver defended their cities' sanctuary policies before the House Oversight Committee.
Inside oral arguments in Esteras v. United States, on what courts may weigh when revoking a defendant's supervised release.
With Jeremy Fredricks
A Senate Judiciary hearing on the opioid crisis runs headlong into the administration's new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China.
The Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Trump's FBI nominee on the Bureau's independence and the president's pardons.
Fifteen years after Citizens United v. FEC, House Democrats make their case that money still decides American politics.
Supporters say it makes Americans safer; immigration experts warn of racial profiling and overcrowded detention.
Where I’ve worked
Washington reporting fellow covering the Texas congressional delegation from Capitol Hill.
Reported from Washington on Congress, Supreme Court oral arguments, and White House briefings.
Pulliam Fellow writing daily breaking news and features for a metro newsroom.
Polling editor. Led data coverage, including WhoAreNU, a campus survey of more than 700 students.
Wrote arts, culture, and community features for the Dallas neighborhood magazine.
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